Title How strange the change : language, temporality, and narrative form in peripheral modernisms / Marc Caplan

Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 342 pages) Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. Contents Introduction : apples and oranges : on comparing Yiddish and African literatures -- Defining peripheral modernism -- One tale, two tellers -- Haskole and Negritude compared -- Education and initiation in the narratives of Haskole and Negritude -- Mendele's Mare, Soyinka's Interpreters -- Mendele's Benjamin The Third and Kourouma's Suns of independence -- Conclusion : at the limits of the periphery : the future of the "minor" in minority literatures Summary Marc Caplan argues that the literatures of ostensibly marginal modern cultures are key to understanding modernism. Caplan undertakes an unprecedented comparison of 19th-century Yiddish literature and 20th-century Anglophone and Francophone African literature and reveals unexpected similarities between them Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Yiddish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism African literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Comparative literature -- Yiddish and African Comparative literature -- African and Yiddish Literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish African literature Literature -- Minority authors Yiddish literature Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2010050574 ISBN 9780804782555 0804782555

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